Country dossier
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Peru in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Peru
Lima carries the deepest concentration of the country’s high-end dining, with Miraflores, Barranco and San Isidro anchoring the scene.
Maido in Miraflores is the clearest Nikkei reference in Lima, with an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list and sake programme. It offers both a tasting menu and à la carte service, and its awards track a long run at the top of the World's 50 Best list.
Central Restaurante in Barranco serves a tasting menu and prix fixe, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. The menu follows Peruvian ecosystems by altitude, using ingredients sourced by Mater Iniciativa. Central held #1 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2023.
Kjolle in Barranco, a sister restaurant to Central, offers a tasting menu and à la carte with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. Chef Pía León builds the tasting menu from Peru’s ecosystems and heritage ingredients. Kjolle ranked #9 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2025.
Mayta in Miraflores offers a tasting menu and à la carte with an extensive wine list. It ranked #39 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2025. Chef Jaime Pesaque builds the menu around native ingredients and Peru’s regional biodiversity.
Curador in Miraflores is a dedicated wine bar, and Lady Bee in Barranco has a sommelier-led wine program. Sastrería Martínez in Miraflores serves craft, classic and zero-proof cocktails, while Carnaval in San Isidro has an Ice Room and theatrical drinks.
Lady Bee in Barranco is a cocktail bar ranked #13 on the World’s 50 Best Bars list in 2025. Gabriela León leads the kitchen, and seasonal drinks use ingredients from across Peru’s regions. The bar has a sommelier-led, wine list and serves small plates.
Curador in Miraflores is a dedicated wine bar with a wine list in a historic house. It holds a Star Wine List award in 2026. Wines from around the world are poured by the glass with pizzas, sharing plates, cheeses and charcuterie.
Sastrería Martínez in Miraflores is a cocktail bar behind a working tailor shop, serving craft cocktails, classic cocktails and zero-proof drinks. Its theatrical cocktails use ingredients from Peru’s coast, sierra and jungle. It ranked #33 on the World’s 50 Best Bars list in 2025.
Carnaval in San Isidro is a concept-driven cocktail bar with craft cocktails, zero-proof drinks and small plates. The bar has an Ice Room and a clear drinks-led identity, and its awards show how Lima’s cocktail culture now sits alongside the city’s restaurant conversation.
Inkaterra La Casona in Plaza de las Nazarenas and Belmond Hotel Monasterio in Cusco Historic Center occupy converted historic buildings. Tambo del Inka, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa in Valle Sagrado and Rio Sagrado, A Belmond Hotel in Urubamba have river views.
Inkaterra La Casona in Plaza de las Nazarenas occupies a restored 16th-century manor built on Inca training grounds. Its 11 suites have fireplaces and heated floors, and the hotel has a courtyard. It holds Michelin 2 Keys, a Relais Chateaux award and a Conde Nast Gold List award.
Belmond Hotel Monasterio in Cusco Historic Center occupies a converted 16th-century monastery with oxygen-enriched rooms and an extensive private art collection. It holds Michelin 1 Key and was named South America’s Leading Heritage Hotel at the World Travel Awards in 2025.
Tambo del Inka, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa in Valle Sagrado, holds Michelin 1 Key and received Star Wine List recognition in 2026. The resort has an organic garden, views of the Andes and the Vilcanota River, and hydrotherapy circuits in the Kallpa Spa.
Rio Sagrado, A Belmond Hotel in Urubamba, holds Michelin 1 Key and scored 93 points on La Liste Top Hotels in 2026. Rooms and suites follow traditional Andean village architecture, with river-facing windows. The property has gardens and riverside dining.
Outside Lima and Cusco, the route turns to regional kitchens, estate producers and remote dining rooms with distinct local character.
Mil Centro in Maras serves an Andean tasting menu with a sommelier-led wine program. The kitchen draws on Andean biodiversity and ingredients from the surrounding Sacred Valley. Beside the Moray ruins, the restaurant ranked #49 on Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2025.
Cirqa in Historic Center occupies a converted 16th-century monastery with a heated plunge pool. It holds Michelin 2 Keys and a Relais Chateaux award. Fodor’s named the property among the Most Incredible Hotels in the World in 2026.
Hacienda Quilloay in San Juan Bautista is a winery and pisco producer. It dates from 1633, the oldest recorded hacienda in Peru, and works as a wine lab for natural wines and traditional pisco from criolla grapes.
Delfin I dining room in Nauta serves a set menu of modern Peruvian Amazonian cooking, with an extensive wine list. Local jungle ingredients feature in its riverboat dining room. It holds a Relais Chateaux award for 2025 and 2026.
Miraflores, Barranco and San Isidro have wine programs and bars in our guide. Maido in Miraflores has an exceptional wine program and a sake program. Curador in Miraflores pours wines by the glass, Lady Bee in Barranco has a sommelier-led wine program, and the restaurant Maras in San Isidro holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
Peru has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Maido in Miraflores serves Nikkei cuisine with an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list and a sake program. Central Restaurante in Barranco serves a tasting menu built around Peruvian ecosystems and altitude.
Barranco and Miraflores in Lima are the main neighbourhoods for tasting menus, with San Isidro also contributing major dining rooms. Central Restaurante, Kjolle and Maido all sit in the capital’s core dining zones, while Mil Centro in Maras extends the format into the Sacred Valley.
The restaurant Maras, in San Isidro, holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence in 2025 and 2026. It serves modern Peruvian cuisine à la carte in The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center and has an extensive wine list overseen by head sommelier Julián Oliva.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Peru
Selected entries from the current guide for Peru.
Lima, Peru
Named The World's Best Restaurant 2025 by the 50 Best organisation, Maido occupies a specific position in Lima's dining scene: the city's clearest expression of Nikkei cuisine, where Japanese technique meets Peruvian ingredient with precision and seasonal intent. Chef Mitsuharu Tsumura has built a decade-and-a-half of credential around this intersection, earning consecutive top-ten rankings and a loyal international following from a Miraflores address on Calle San Martín.
Lima, Peru
Central occupies a converted house in Barranco, Lima's bohemian coastal district, and has held the number-one position on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list (2023). The tasting menu moves through Peruvian ecosystems by altitude, ocean floor to high Andes, using ingredients sourced by the research collective Mater Iniciativa. For serious diners visiting Lima, it represents the clearest single-table argument for Peru's biodiversity as a culinary framework.
Lima, Peru
In Barranco, Lima's most creatively charged neighbourhood, Mérito has built a serious reputation by threading Venezuelan culinary memory through Peruvian ingredients and technique. Ranked #55 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2024 and #6 in South America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, the two-floor restaurant on Jr. 28 de Julio draws both local regulars and informed international visitors. The chef's counter remains especially coveted seat in the house.
Lima, Peru
Kjolle sits in Barranco's Casa Tupac, where Pía León, named World's Best Female Chef and the chef behind Central's rise, runs a tasting menu built entirely from Peru's ingredient treasury. Ranked #16 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2024 and #5 in South America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, the restaurant applies months of research to each ingredient without obscuring what it is. Open Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner.
Lima, Peru
Ranked #41 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2024, Mayta has been among Lima's most consistent modern Peruvian addresses since relocating and relaunching in 2018. Chef Jaime Pesaque structures the menu around Peru's regional biodiversity, from Amazonian fish to Andean algae, across a nine-course tasting format and a parallel plant-based programme that earned a fifth radish in the We're Smart Green Guide.
Lima, Peru
In Barranco, Lima's most atmospheric neighbourhood for nightlife, Lady Bee operates at the intersection of serious cocktail craft and small-plate cooking. it occupies a specific tier in Lima's bar scene where the drinks program and the food arrive at equal weight. Chef Gabriela León leads the kitchen.
Maras, Peru
Set among the Inca circular terraces of Moray at 3,500 metres, Mil Centro is one of South America's most seriously regarded restaurants, ranking second on Opinionated About Dining's South America list in 2024 and 2025 after holding the top spot in 2023. Virgilio Martínez's high-altitude kitchen anchors its menu in Andean biodiversity, drawing on ingredients from the surrounding Sacred Valley with the same intellectual rigour as his Lima flagship, Central.
Lima, Peru
Set inside the 17th-century Casa Moreyra hacienda in San Isidro, Astrid & Gastón has held a place in the World's 50 Best Restaurants every year from 2011 to 2018, peaking at #14 in 2013 and 2015. Under chef Jorge Muñoz Castro, the restaurant runs a tasting format built around Peruvian biodiversity, with vegetables as a recurring editorial thread. Ranked #9 in South America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025.
Lima, Peru
Carnaval belongs to Lima’s serious cocktail conversation: a bar treated by Opinionated About Dining as part of the city’s dining culture rather than as an after-hours add-on. Aaron Diaz’s name gives the project a clear authorial line, but the larger point is Lima’s shift toward drinks programs with the structure, pacing, and recognition usually reserved for restaurants.
Lima, Peru
Rafael occupies an art-deco mansion on Calle San Martín in Miraflores, where chef Rafael Osterling has spent decades threading Peruvian ingredients through Italian and Japanese technique. Ranked on Opinionated About Dining's South America list consistently since 2023 and awarded 90 points by La Liste in 2025, it holds a steady position in Lima's upper tier of cosmopolitan modern Peruvian dining.
Lima, Peru
La Mar Cebichería in Miraflores is Gastón Acurio's dedicated ceviche house, ranked #31 among South America's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2024. Open daily for lunch service, the Av. La Mar address has become a reference point for Peru's ceviche tradition, drawing on fresh seafood and combinations that range from the traditional to the vegetable-forward. Chef Anthony Vasquez leads the kitchen.
Lima, Peru
Maras in Lima presents modern Peruvian cuisine with regional flair. Must-try dishes include Crispy Baby Octopus, Nikkei Tuna Tiradito, and Arapaima with mashed cassava and banana. The restaurant pairs seasonal plates with an expansive wine program, 205 selections and an inventory of 460 bottles, guided by Head Sommelier Julián Oliva. Located inside The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center, Maras offers a focused tasting menu and à la carte choices that highlight coastal seafood, Amazonian produce, and Andean roots. Recognized with Tripadvisor's Travellers' Choice 2025, the dining room delivers attentive, knowledgeable service and a warm, inviting atmosphere ideal for celebratory dinners and business meals. Reserve via SevenRooms.
Lima, Peru
Isolina Taberna Peruana in Barranco brings traditional Peruvian home cooking to a serious dining context, with consistent recognition from La Liste and Opinionated About Dining since 2023. Chef José del Castillo draws on the deep pantry of Lima's mercado culture to produce dishes rooted in generational technique. Open seven days a week, it occupies a distinct position among Lima's mid-to-upper tier restaurants as a counterpoint to the city's modernist wave.
Lima, Peru
Flama brings Neapolitan pizza tradition to Miraflores with disciplinary-code dough, classic toppings, and fresh pasta alongside a well-assembled cured meats and cocktail selection. The room carries warm wood tones and an elegantly casual character that sits apart from Lima's Peruvian-centric dining scene. Chefs Juan Carlos Romero, Daniel Vergara, and Daniel Ramirez lead the kitchen.
Lima, Peru
OSSO Carniceria operates at the intersection of butcher shop and restaurant in San Isidro, where Chef Renzo Garibaldi has built a programme around dry-aged cuts and wood-fired cooking that Opinionated About Dining has ranked among South America's top restaurants in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The format is meat-forward and intentional: produce quality, butchery craft, and fire are the three load-bearing elements.
Lima, Peru
Fiesta Lima brings four decades of northern Peruvian culinary mastery to Miraflores, where Chef Héctor Solís transforms Chiclayo traditions into refined dining experiences featuring signature Arroz con Pato, notable ceviche, and rare loche squash preparations unavailable elsewhere in the capital.
Lima, Peru
Osaka in Lima's San Isidro district sits at the intersection of Peruvian produce culture and Japanese culinary discipline, representing the Nikkei tradition that has shaped Lima's dining identity for over a century. Located on Avenida Felipe Pardo y Aliaga, it operates in a neighbourhood that concentrates several of Lima's most serious dining rooms, making it a natural reference point for visitors mapping the city's Japanese-Peruvian cooking scene.
Lima, Peru
On a residential stretch of Miraflores, Anticuchos Grimanesa has built a reputation around a single ingredient and the charcoal smoke that transforms it. Ranked 45th in the 2025 Opinionated About Dining South America list, this is street food refined to a serious address, where anticuchos, Peru's grilled beef heart skewers, are the reason Lima's food community keeps returning.
Lima, Peru
A plant-based kitchen in Miraflores that draws on Peruvian, Japanese, Thai, and American influences to produce hearty, flavor-driven food without any fine-dining pretension. Recognized by the We're Smart Green Guide for proving that impact doesn't require white tablecloths or tasting menus. Find it on Av. Petit Thouars in the heart of Miraflores.
Cusco, Peru
Chicha por Gaston Acurio sits on Cusco's Plaza Regocijo and applies Acurio's Peruvian revivalist approach to Andean ingredients and regional cooking traditions. Ranked in Opinionated About Dining's Top 65 South American restaurants in 2025, it draws a broad crowd, tourists, Lima visitors, and locals, and delivers accessible but carefully considered Peruvian food at mid-range prices for the city.
Lima, Peru
Chifa TITI is Lima chifa seen through heat, timing, and Cantonese-Peruvian continuity rather than fusion shorthand. Its 2026 Opinionated About Dining ranking at No. 81 in South America gives it a useful marker in a city better known internationally for cevicherías, picanterías, and tasting-menu Peruvian restaurants.
Cusco, Peru
Ranked #55 on the 2024 Opinionated About Dining list of South America's top restaurants, Cicciolina has held its position as one of Cusco's most consistent addresses for Peruvian cooking since long before the city's dining scene attracted international attention. Open daily from 12:30 to 9:30 pm at Calle Palacio 110, it draws both long-stay travellers and locals seeking something more considered than the Plaza de Armas tourist circuit.
Arequipa, Peru
Cirqa Restaurant places Arequipa’s regional cooking inside a polished, contemporary frame rather than treating it as museum fare. Chef Maria Fe Garcia Uranga’s work is framed around ancestral culinary heritage and a present-tense reading of local classics, making the dining room a useful lens on how the city’s picantería tradition is being translated for a quieter, more design-led audience.
Peru
Selected entries from the current guide for Peru.
Arequipa, Peru
Las Casitas, A Belmond Hotel sits in the Colca Valley outside Arequipa, earning Three MICHELIN Keys in 2025, recognition that places it among a small tier of Peruvian properties where architecture, landscape integration, and service depth carry equal weight. The property occupies Fundo La Curiña in Yanque, a colonial agricultural estate remade into a cluster of private casitas set against high-altitude Andean terrain.
Cusco, Peru
A 16th-century colonial manor on Cusco's Plaza Nazarenas, Inkaterra La Casona operates at the intersection of heritage architecture and Andean cultural programming. With only 11 suites, a 97-point La Liste 2026 ranking, and rates from US$440 per night, it sits in a distinct tier of intimate, historically grounded properties within Cusco's upper accommodation market.
Urubamba, Peru
Positioned between Cusco and Machu Picchu along the Sacred Valley highway, Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba occupies 100 acres of Andean hillside with 36 rooms and casitas, a 10-acre organic farm, and valley views from every private terrace. At $405 per night, it sits in the upper tier of Sacred Valley properties that trade large-resort scale for something more contained and agriculturally grounded.
Cusco, Peru
A 16th-century monastery on Cusco's Plaza de las Nazarenas, converted by Belmond into a 126-room hotel that holds UNESCO World Heritage status and scored 97.5 points in La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking. The 2025 World Travel Awards named it South America's Leading Heritage Hotel. Colonial architecture, original frescoes, and exclusive access to the Belmond Hiram Bingham train to Machu Picchu define the guest experience.
Cusco, Peru
Positioned in the Sacred Valley at roughly 2,800 metres, lower than Cusco city, Tambo del Inka serves as the considered first stop for travellers heading to Machu Picchu. The resort's private train station, on-site organic garden, and 128 rooms with mountain views place it in the upper bracket of Sacred Valley accommodation. Recognised by La Liste Top Hotels 2026 (95.5 points) and Star Wine List 2026.
Cusco, Peru
A 16th-century convent turned 55-suite Belmond property, Palacio Nazarenas occupies one of Cusco's most architecturally layered addresses. Inca stonework, colonial frescoes, and oxygen-enriched suites with 24-hour butler service frame a stay that ranks #87 on the World's 50 Best Hotels 2025 list. The city's first outdoor infinity-edge pool and the Senzo restaurant complete a property that sits at the sharper end of Cusco's luxury tier.
Lima, Peru
Perched on the clifftops of Miraflores above the Pacific, this Belmond all-suite property scored 93.5 points in the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels ranking. The 87 suites range from 484-square-foot Junior Suites to Presidential Pool Suites with ocean-view plunge pools and butler service. Tragaluz restaurant, the rooftop infinity pool, and pisco sour masterclasses make it a credible base for serious Lima itineraries.
Lima, Peru
A nine-room hotelito in Miraflores, Atemporal occupies a 1940s Tudor-style mansion on Calle Santa María and operates on a guests-only basis, making it one of Lima's most private small hotels. Rates from $336 per night include breakfast and 24-hour room service sourced from local suppliers, plus complimentary bicycles and a house car with private chauffeur. The surrounding neighbourhood puts Astrid y Gastón and Osaka within walking distance.
Lima, Peru
Built in 1927 and protected as a Lima heritage monument, Country Club Lima Hotel occupies a considered position among San Isidro's established luxury addresses. Its 83 rooms and suites carry original artwork from the Pedro de Osma Museum, while Perroquet restaurant and the Bar Inglés serve as anchors of the hotel's social life. A La Liste 2026 score of 91 points and Leading Hotels of the World membership confirm its place in the upper tier of Lima accommodation.
Puno, Peru
Titilaka occupies a solitary position on the grassy shoreline of Lake Titicaca, one of the world's highest and largest bodies of water. The 18-suite boutique property positions itself at the premium end of a route better known for backpacker lodges, with a design vocabulary rooted in earthy restraint and picture-window views across the deep blue lake. Arrival by private speedboat sets the tone for what follows.
Urubamba, Peru
Sitting on the grounds of a colonial hacienda amid Inca agricultural terraces in the Sacred Valley, Explora Valle Sagrado operates as an all-inclusive expedition base positioned between Cusco and Machu Picchu. More than 20 guided explorations, on foot, by van, or by bicycle, are built into every stay, alongside accommodation, meals, beverages, and transfers. La Liste awarded the property 93 points in its 2026 Top Hotels ranking.
Lima, Peru
A restored 1914 Belle Époque mansion on Barranco's seafront corner, Hotel B occupies one of Lima's most architecturally arresting addresses. The rooftop Sundowner Deck, a curated Latin American art collection, and a gourmet Peruvian restaurant complete the picture.
Urubamba, Peru
On the banks of the Urubamba River in Peru's Sacred Valley, Rio Sagrado, A Belmond Hotel offers 23 rooms and suites designed after traditional Andean village architecture, with no televisions and expansive river-facing windows in their place. Rated 93 points by La Liste Top Hotels 2026, the property sits at a lower altitude than Cusco, making it a practical acclimatisation base with its own train station for the Hiram Bingham service to Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu, Peru
Set across 12 acres of high-mountain cloud forest at the edge of Machu Picchu Pueblo, Inkaterra is an eco-lodge and conservation property in one. Eighty-five rooms and suites occupy low-rise whitewash cottages connected by stone pathways, with starting rates from $415. The property sits roughly 70 miles from Cusco, accessible by train via Ollantaytambo, and holds membership in the XO Private Collection.
Cusco, Peru
Built on the foundations of the Qoricancha, the Inca Temple of the Sun, Palacio del Inka is among Cusco's most historically layered addresses. The Luxury Collection property holds 203 rooms with hand-painted ceilings and baroque antiques, alongside the guest-only Inti Raymi restaurant and Cusco's only hydrotherapy circuit. La Liste named it 92 points in 2026.
Urubamba, Peru
Sol y Luna has operated in the Sacred Valley of the Incas since 1996, occupying a bungalow-style lodge at 2,700 metres above Urubamba. Rates from US$605 per night reflect a property built around organic farm-to-table cooking, garden biodiversity, and locally sourced architecture. The kitchen is led by executive chef Pedro Miguel Schiaffino, recognised on the San Pellegrino global list of top chefs.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
The first five-star hotel to open in Aguas Calientes, Sumaq Machu Picchu Hotel sits on the banks of the Vilcanota River with direct access to Machu Picchu Archaeological Park. Its 62 rooms draw on Andean cosmology through a redesign framed around the Chakana cross, while a program of shaman-led site tours, Pachamanca cooking, and Rainforest Alliance-certified conservation work distinguishes it within Peru's high-altitude luxury tier. La Liste awarded it 93 points in 2026.
Cusco, Peru
A 16th-century convent on Cusco's historic centre, converted into a JW Marriott property with 91 points on La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking. Oxygen-enriched rooms address altitude from arrival, while the Health Club Spa, inner courtyard fire pits, and Qespi Restaurant's market-sourced Andean menu give the hotel a credible wellness and recovery architecture beyond its heritage shell.
Canon De Tinajani, Peru
A six-bedroom tented camp set inside Tinajani Canyon at 12,900 feet, Andean's sixth Peruvian property was conceived as a transit stop and became something far more considered. Restored hacienda architecture anchors canvas campamentos with private hot tubs and wool-blanketed beds, while guided hikes through red-rock formations and community visits to local textile weavers fill the days. Doubles from $1,217, all-inclusive.
Paracas, Peru
Michelin Selected for 2025, Hotel Paracas occupies one of Peru's most ecologically charged coastlines, where the Paracas National Reserve meets the Pacific. The property sits in a category of resort hotels that use landscape and architectural scale to define the stay rather than urban amenity, placing it alongside Peru's most considered coastal addresses. See our full Paracas guide for broader context.
Lima, Peru
Nhow Lima occupies a Miraflores address on Calle Atahualpa, placing it within walking distance of the district's clifftop parks and restaurant corridor. The property positions itself at the intersection of pre-Columbian heritage and contemporary hotel design, a combination that has become the dominant mode for Lima's upper-mid and luxury hotel tier. Travellers routing through Lima before onward connections to Cusco or the Sacred Valley will find the location practical and the aesthetic considered.
Lima, Peru
Royal Park Hotel Lima occupies a measured position in San Isidro, Lima's financial and diplomatic district, where European design sensibility meets a curated collection of Pre-Columbian archaeological artefacts and contemporary art. The hotel sits within walking distance of Lima Golf Course and the neighbourhood's concentration of restaurants and cultural institutions, making it a practical base for extended stays in the city.
Lima, Peru
Named Peru's Leading Boutique Hotel at the 2025 World Travel Awards, Belmond Las Casitas occupies twenty private casitas across terraced grounds above the Colca Canyon, one of the deepest canyons on earth. The all-inclusive format pairs canyon trekking, condor watching, and hot spring bathing with a culinary program built around locally sourced ingredients and high-altitude gardens. Entry starts at $490 per night.
Peru
Selected entries from the current guide for Peru.
Lima, Peru
In Barranco, Lima's most atmospheric neighbourhood for nightlife, Lady Bee operates at the intersection of serious cocktail craft and small-plate cooking. it occupies a specific tier in Lima's bar scene where the drinks program and the food arrive at equal weight. Chef Gabriela León leads the kitchen.
Lima, Peru
Set inside the 17th-century Casa Moreyra hacienda in San Isidro, Astrid & Gastón has held a place in the World's 50 Best Restaurants every year from 2011 to 2018, peaking at #14 in 2013 and 2015. Under chef Jorge Muñoz Castro, the restaurant runs a tasting format built around Peruvian biodiversity, with vegetables as a recurring editorial thread. Ranked #9 in South America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025.
Lima, Peru
Carnaval belongs to Lima’s serious cocktail conversation: a bar treated by Opinionated About Dining as part of the city’s dining culture rather than as an after-hours add-on. Aaron Diaz’s name gives the project a clear authorial line, but the larger point is Lima’s shift toward drinks programs with the structure, pacing, and recognition usually reserved for restaurants.
Lima, Peru
Isolina Taberna Peruana in Barranco brings traditional Peruvian home cooking to a serious dining context, with consistent recognition from La Liste and Opinionated About Dining since 2023. Chef José del Castillo draws on the deep pantry of Lima's mercado culture to produce dishes rooted in generational technique. Open seven days a week, it occupies a distinct position among Lima's mid-to-upper tier restaurants as a counterpoint to the city's modernist wave.
Lima, Peru
Behind a working tailor shop on a Miraflores side street, Sastrería Martinez delivers Lima's most theatrically committed speakeasy entrance before revealing a full-service cocktail bar stocked with ingredients from Peru's highlands and Amazon basin. Ranked 460th on the 2025 Top 500 Bars list, it represents the city's growing confidence in bartending as a serious craft, with a drinks program that pulls from biomes most bars never consider.
Lima, Peru
One of Lima's few dedicated wine bars, Curador occupies a low-key corner of Miraflores with a format built around personalised glass-by-glass curation. The approach is deliberately conversational: staff read the room and the drinker, then pour accordingly. In a city better known for pisco and cocktail theatre, Curador operates in a quieter, more considered register.
Lima, Peru
Ranked 491st in the Top 500 Bars global list for 2025, Sayani operates out of Miraflores, Lima's most concentrated drinking district, at a tier where the competition is genuinely serious. The bar sits alongside a cohort of Lima venues that have pushed Peruvian cocktail culture onto the world stage, making it a reference point for anyone tracking South American bar craft at the highest level.
Lima, Peru
Bar Inglés sits in San Isidro, Lima’s business-and-residential district, where the city’s cocktail culture often reads quieter than Miraflores or Barranco.
Lima, Peru
Belo Bar sits on Malecón de la Reserva in Miraflores, placing it in Lima’s coastal drinking circuit rather than the colonial-centre hotel-bar tradition. Public venue data does not list awards, chef, price range, booking method, or signature drinks, so the useful read is contextual: use it as a Miraflores bar reference point within a city increasingly defined by serious back bars, pisco literacy, and destination cocktail rooms.
Lima, Peru
Dédalo occupies a converted space in Barranco, Lima's arts-district neighbourhood, where the physical environment does as much work as anything on the menu. The address on Jirón Sáenz Peña places it within walking distance of the district's gallery circuit, and the crowd reflects that, local creatives, informed visitors, and the kind of regulars who treat the room as an extension of the neighbourhood itself.
Lima, Peru
Peña Don Porfirio occupies a Barranco address that places it inside Lima's most concentrated drinking and live-music district. The format follows the classic peña tradition, a space where pisco, chicha, and live Afro-Peruvian and criollo performance converge on the same evening. For those tracing Lima's vernacular drinking culture, it sits on Manuel Segura 115 in the 15063 postcode.
Cusco, Peru
Senzo occupies the former chapel courtyard of Belmond Palacio Nazarenas, a 16th-century Inca-Spanish colonial palace in central Cuzco. The kitchen draws on Andean altitude ingredients and Peruvian culinary tradition within one of the city's most architecturally significant dining settings. For hotel guests and walk-ins alike, it represents the premium end of Cuzco's growing fine-dining tier.
Peru
Selected entries from the current guide for Peru.
Lima, Peru
The address on Av. San Martín has served as a gathering point for the neighbourhood's pisco and wine culture for generations, offering a window into how Peruvian drinking traditions sustain themselves in a changing city.
Ica, Peru
Hacienda La Caravedo sits along the Panamericana Sur in Ica, Peru, on one of the oldest continuously operated pisco distillery sites in the country.
Ica, Peru
The hacienda format places it among a small set of estate producers working directly from the Ica valley's desert terroir, where extreme aridity and coastal influence shape the character of its output.
Ica, Peru
One of Peru's most historically significant wine estates, Tacama Winery operates from the Ica valley, where coastal desert conditions and ancient irrigation channels define the growing environment.
